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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3474874, member: 6927"] Remember that it's a comparison game. To leave Purdue out, you have to be prepared to show that there are 32 at-large resumes better than theirs. Raw W-L record per se doesn't tell us a whole lot. Gotta look under the hood to see who all they beat and who all they lost to. In general, losses to good teams (top 50, or at-large caliber teams) don't hurt a resume on their own. Purdue has 4 top-50 wins. I believe that is more than any of the bubble teams I've listed. Two of those wins are over RPI top-25 teams. Purdue has only 2 losses outside the top 50, and neither of those is a horrible loss, in the grand scheme of things (#92 Minnesota and #102 Michigan State). Again, almost all of the bubble teams have losses worse than these, with the notable exception of Tennessee and possibly Creighton. (But both of these two teams lack the quality wins that Purdue has.) Again, comparison game. Which teams should be moved ahead of Purdue, based on body of work? [/QUOTE]